Bolton to Bury or Leigh to Wigan ?

By train they are both the same.

Iirc bolton-bury is 6 miles along the a58. (Sign at top of radcliffe moor road).

 

Dunno about the other.

Leigh have never had a border with Wigan, you have to pass through three inbred towns before arrival.

Not a lot in it, but town centre to town centre Bolton is slightly closer to Bury than Leigh is to Wigan.

Just been on google maps and measured against my finger.

 

same distance.

 

Can't get more scientific than that.

Leigh have never had a border with Wigan, you have to pass through three inbred towns before arrival.

Hindley Green,Hindley + Ince? They are all in Wigan so technically Wigan does border Leigh - unless i'm missing summat?

A different accent, but  it's dead easy to suss out. I cant tell a Bolton from a Bury one to be honest.

A different accent, but  it's dead easy to suss out. I cant tell a Bolton from a Bury one to be honest.

Bury is just a Manc wannabe accent, Wigan is much broader than Bolton and easy to spot the difference.

Farnworth + Horwich accents are slightly different to Bolton imo.

Bolton and bury are two different towns

 

Leigh is part of Wigan

 

Hth

Is Leigh it's own town, or a "village/district" of Wigan? (In the same way that Ickle Lever is part of Bolton, even though it thinks it's a real, independent place)

Little Lever and Radcliffe girls always sounded in the same dialect, and further up town to Whitefield it changed to half manc.

Is Leigh it's own town, or a "village/district" of Wigan? (In the same way that Ickle Lever is part of Bolton, even though it thinks it's a real, independent place)

 

Leigh is on it's own imo 

Bolton and bury are two different towns

 

Leigh is part of Wigan

 

Hth

All four towns (Bolton,Leigh,Wigan ,Bury) have a sense of identity about them, as do the smaller towns around these areas.

 

Government boundaries/boroughs can fuck right off, but folk become far too worked up about it (a bit like me now)

Is Leigh it's own town, or a "village/district" of Wigan? (In the same way that Ickle Lever is part of Bolton, even though it thinks it's a real, independent place)

Little Lever's no more than an estate in my opinion, but definitely a local estate for local people.

Aye

 

Like Leigh is a district of Wigan

Once Cliff has gone 2018 will see that only those born within the BL1 - BL3 postcodes will be able to call themselves true Boltononians 

Aye

 

Like Leigh is a district of Wigan

We love our 1974 big brother watching over us .

ALL Mancs

Once Cliff has gone 2018 will see that only those born within the BL1 - BL3 postcodes will be able to call themselves true Boltononians 

i'm alreet then, although i'd take an 'on' out of it.

 

on another note, i see the government are switching the constituencies about, Atherton, Farnworth and Radcliffe joining up to replace the old Bolton South East

Edited November 11, 20178 yr by Alf Hartigan

Atherton and radcliffe?

 

Wigan and Bury/Bolton?

I think the last footballer what was born in Leigh what played for Bolton was Wayne Foster, nearest place is Salford or Wiggin these days to knock a kid out.

Atherton and radcliffe?

 

Wigan and Bury/Bolton?

Aye, boundaries are just pencil lines.

 

Anyway, has anyone been to Darwen recently, cracking place, is it Blackburn though or a town in it's own right like Leigh. I'd say the latter.

 

Known a few folk from Bolton moved there for cheaper housing.

Know Darwen quite well

 

They definitely see themselves as Darwen, not blackburn

And what you mention about housing goes fir radcliffe mid 60s

 

My mum n dad couldn't buy what they want in Bolton so went there

 

I think it's changed over the years but the top end of radcliffe was definitely Bolton as I grew up

Little Lever's no more than an estate in my opinion, but definitely a local estate for local people.

Ok, leave our shallow gene pool out of this!